author
Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
1207–1273
A 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, he wrote verse that still feels intimate, musical, and searching. His work moves between love, longing, and spiritual wonder, which helps explain why readers around the world keep returning to it.
3 Audiobooks
The Festival of Spring, from the Díván of Jeláleddín Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions, with an Introduction and a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí
by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Mesnevi
by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
About the author
Born in 1207 in the region of Balkh and later settled in Konya, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi became one of the best-known poets in the Persian language. He was also a religious scholar and Sufi teacher, and his writing grew out of both deep learning and intense spiritual experience.
Rumi is especially remembered for works such as the Masnavi and the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. Accounts of his life often highlight his transformative bond with Shams of Tabriz, a meeting linked to the passionate, inward-turning poetry that made his name endure for centuries.
After his death in 1273, his influence continued through his writings and through the Mevlevi tradition associated with his followers, often known for the whirling dervishes. Today he is read not only as a major classical poet, but as a writer on love, devotion, grief, and the search for union with the divine.